By Joseph Long ’22
Although many aspects of school have been derailed as a result of the coronavirus, we will still have a yearbook, albeit a few months late. The yearbook team has been working a little bit every day so that they can finish the book with the challenges that school closure has caused.
The team would normally have the book done around this time so that the book order could arrive by the end of the year, but they have pushed back their deadline to June, so the books will arrive in early August. All St. Christopher’s students will receive their 2019-2020 yearbooks at the start of next school year. Once the books arrive, there will be a way for seniors to collect them.
One of the good things is that everyone working on the yearbook is already proficient in working from home because they have always been working from home using the book publisher’s cloud based software, so they are just continuing their work like normal. Upper School Math Teacher Jeb Britton, Raps & Taps advisor, collects content and gives the student editors certain work to do every day online. He prefers to give them a smaller amount of work than usual now that they have to balance it with online learning.
One of the biggest challenges with the school closure is that many group pictures will be missing. The yearbook team had not taken pictures of clubs or spring sports before spring break, so there will not be pictures of those groups all together. For varsity spring sports, the yearbook team is working with the athletic department to get headshots of the individual members to be included in their team’s section, but other spring sports and clubs will just have rosters. All group pictures of other sports and groups taken before spring break will be included in the yearbook as usual.